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Robert Schwartz (pediatric endocrinologist)

Robert Schwartz is an American physician-scientist in pediatric endocrinology at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital whose research established how insulin acts in the human fetus and newborn.

Robert T. Jensen

Robert T. Jensen is an American gastroenterologist who leads the Gastrointestinal Cell Biology Section at NIDDK, NIH, known for decades of research on gastrointestinal hormones and Zollinger-Ellison syndrome.

Robert T. Schooley

Robert T. Schooley is an American infectious disease physician and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego, who chaired the NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Group from 1995 to 2002.

Robert V Blanden

Robert V Blanden, full name Robert Vincent Blanden, is an Australian immunologist who led the Immunology Group at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU.

Robert V. Farese

Robert V. Farese Jr. is an American biochemist and physician who identified the DGAT enzymes that synthesize triglycerides and helped establish lipid droplets as dynamic organelles.

Robert Vassar

Robert Vassar is a neuroscientist at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine who co-discovered BACE1, the β-secretase enzyme initiating β-amyloid production in Alzheimer's disease, in 1999.

Robert W Aldridge

Robert W Aldridge is a British physician-epidemiologist known for research on the health of migrants and socially excluded groups, leading the Virus Watch COVID-19 study and joining IHME in 2023.

Robert W. Berliner

Robert W. Berliner (1915–2002) was an American renal physiologist who defined how the kidney handles potassium and later served as dean of the Yale School of Medicine.

Robert W. Colman

Robert W. Colman is an American hematologist and physician-scientist at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, known for defining the plasma kallikrein-kinin contact activation system.

Robert W. Finberg

Robert W. Finberg was an American infectious disease physician-scientist who researched viral receptors and innate immunity and chaired medicine at UMass Chan Medical School for two decades.

Robert W. Mahley

Robert W. Mahley is an American physician-scientist who discovered apolipoprotein E, defined its three isoforms, founded the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, and studied apoE4's role in Alzheimer's disease.

Robert W. Miller

Robert W. Miller (1921–2006) was an American pediatrician and cancer epidemiologist who spent over 35 years at the National Cancer Institute and studied atomic-bomb radiation effects on children in Hiroshima.

Robert W. Schrier

Robert W. Schrier was an American nephrologist who led renal medicine at the University of Colorado and explained sodium and water retention in heart failure, cirrhosis, and pregnancy.

Robert W. Snow

Robert W. Snow is a malaria epidemiologist who is Professor at the University of Oxford and Principal Scientist at the KEMRI/Wellcome Trust program in Nairobi, Kenya.

Robert W. Wilkins

Robert W. Wilkins was an American physician-scientist in cardiovascular medicine who showed rauwolfia, reserpine, and chlorothiazide could lower high blood pressure, and whose step-care treatment strategy won the 1958 Lasker Award.

Robert W. Yeh

Robert W. Yeh is an interventional cardiologist who directs the Smith Center for Outcomes Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and created the DAPT score.

Robert Wilkinson (clinician-scientist)

Robert J. Wilkinson is a British clinician-scientist studying tuberculosis and HIV co-infection, whose Cape Town trials changed World Health Organization policy and who was appointed OBE in 2025.

Robert Williamson (molecular geneticist)

Robert Williamson, born 1938, is a human molecular geneticist who cloned the globin genes and mapped the cystic fibrosis gene, leading the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne.

Robert Yarchoan

Robert Yarchoan is an American physician-scientist at the National Cancer Institute who led the first trials of AZT, co-developed ddI and ddC, and has headed its HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch since 1996.

Robert Z. Orlowski

Robert Z. Orlowski is a physician-scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center who led the first clinical studies of bortezomib and the IMROZ trial of isatuximab for multiple myeloma.

Robert Zeiser

Robert Zeiser (born 1975) is a German hematology and oncology physician-scientist at the University of Freiburg known for developing ruxolitinib therapy for steroid-refractory graft-versus-host disease.

Robert Zelis

Robert Zelis (1939–2021) was an American cardiologist and physician-scientist who spent 40 years at Penn State's Hershey Medical Center, arriving in 1974 as its second chief of cardiology.

Roberta A. Ballard

Roberta A. Ballard is an American neonatologist, emeritus professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who led major trials on chronic lung disease in premature infants.

Roberta B. Ness

Roberta B. Ness is an American physician-epidemiologist known for women's health research, her deanship of the University of Texas School of Public Health, and advocacy of creative thinking in science.

RobertA. Good

Robert A. Good (1922–2003) was an American pediatrician and immunologist at the University of Minnesota, widely described as a founder of modern immunology.

Roberto Bolli

Roberto Bolli is an Italian-born American cardiologist and professor at the University of Louisville, known for work on myocardial stunning, ischemic preconditioning, and cardiac stem cells.

Roberto Chiarle

Roberto Chiarle is an Italian molecular pathologist, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School since 2020, known for ALK cancer vaccines, translocation sequencing, and founding ALKemist Bio.

Roberto Ferrari (Italian cardiologist)

Roberto Ferrari is an Italian cardiologist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Ferrara, known for leading large trials of ivabradine and trimetazidine and for leading the European Society of Cardiology.

Roberto J. Poljak

Roberto J. Poljak is an Argentine-born biophysicist and structural immunologist who determined the first three-dimensional structure of an antibody fragment and of an antigen–antibody complex.

Roberto Romero

Roberto Jose Romero-Galue is a Venezuelan-born physician-scientist who has led the NICHD Perinatology Research Branch since 1992 and showed vaginal progesterone cuts preterm birth by 45%.